These Universities In New York Rank Among Best In World

One of the new Cornell Tech buildings, which Cornell University opened earlier last fall on Roosevelt Island in New York City. Its main campus is in Ithaca. Cornell was ranked14th globally and 11th in the nation in the latest annual CWUR report.Photo Credit: Jon CraigColumbia University, based in upper Manhattan about 17 miles from Westchester County, was ranked No. 1 in New York state by the Center for World University Rankings. Columbia was ranked eighth internationally and sixth nationwide by CWUR.Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Since 2012, CWUR has been publishing the only academic ranking of global universities that weighs the quality of education, alumni employment, research output and citations without relying on surveys and university data submissions.

The ranking started out as a project in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia with the aim of rating the top 100 world universities.

The Center for World University Rankings moved its headquarters to the United Arab Emirates in 2016.